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  • Crew Unloads Dragon and Kicks Off New Space Experiments

    The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft, with its nosecone open, approaches the International Space Station for an automated docking to the Harmony module's space-facing port. Dragon delivered about 6,700 pounds of new science experiments and crew supplies replenishing the Expedition 73 crew.

    The Expedition 73 crew is beginning its first full week together unpacking the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft and activating new science experiments. The International Space Station residents are also gearing up for next week’s spacewalk while ensuring the ongoing operations of the orbiting laboratory.

  • NASA Balloon Crossing South America

    NASA’s super pressure balloon test flight carrying the HIWIND payload crossed into South America around 1 p.m. EDT (5 p.m. UTC) today, Wednesday, April 23.

    The balloon will pass over Chile and Argentina as it continues its globetrotting journey around the Southern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes.

    To track the flight in real-time, visit Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility’s website here

  • NASA Scientific Balloon on Track to Cross South America

    A graphic of a world map with green land masses and blue ocean, and a red line representing a flight path of a balloon.

    After five days in flight, NASA’s super pressure balloon test flight carrying the HIWIND payload has nearly crossed the Pacific Ocean and is on track to reach South America Wednesday, April 23 at approximately 2 p.m. EDT (April 23, 6:00 p.m. UTC). The stadium-sized, heavy-lift scientific balloon, which launched from Wānaka, New Zealand, April 16 […]

  • April 2025 Puzzler

    Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, and why it is interesting.

  • NASA’s EZIE Mission Captures ‘First Light’

    NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission has taken its first measurements.  These “first light” observations show that EZIE is poised to reveal crucial details about Earth’s auroral electrojets — powerful electric currents that flow through our upper atmosphere where auroras glow in the sky. This information will help us better understand Earth’s connection to space and mitigate the negative impacts of […]

  • NASA’s Moon Seismometer Cleared for Construction 

    Three people in white astronaut suits with helmets and orange gloves stand in an area of sand-like substance, holding science instruments. One instrument in buried slightly in the sand

    NASA has confirmed that a seismometer being designed for the lunar surface is ready for building and assembly. The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) is one of several science payloads in development for potential deployment by astronauts during NASA’s Artemis III mission.   The LEMS instrument is a compact suite of seismometers, about the size […]